Brian Gibson is an artist, workshop leader and ambassador for the arts charity, Outside In. He is also the founder of the digital online zine, Deviation Street. Its legacy has evolved from the DIY (Do It Yourself) and DIT (Do It Together) ethos of subcultures and 1970s fanzines.

“My work investigates issues surrounding technology. Originating from the principle of working with what’s at hand, I work with the discarded materials of domestic tech. I deconstruct items such as laptops and mobile phones as a way of seeing technology outside of its digital and data driven framework.

Reworking technology is exploratory, enabling new narratives to evolve over time.  I do this through a range of artistic processes that includes mono-printing, photography, assemblage, and film.

I am interested in questioning the relationships that we have with technology  How we engage with it and how to claim agency over developments that seem outside of user control.

My work also looks into the search for ecological solutions within technology and considers the architectural spaces of tech interiors and the constructed world around us.”